Mar 23, 2018
Giving away your friends to Facebook
Penney Kome
How to check, and what you can do.
Technology
Mar 14, 2018
Measuring the pace of progress with technologies of the past
It's easy to look back on older technologies: cassettes, carbon paper or acetates and shake our heads in amusement. But the shape of the obsolescence curve hasn't changed, just the slope.
Mar 1, 2018
Thanks to you, SumOfUs and OpenMedia's #DontCensor billboard is now up in Toronto!
Marie Aspiazu
Just in time for the day of action to protest Bell coalition’s website blocking plan, our #DontCensor billboard went up in Toronto. Once again, this would have not been possible without you.
Mar 1, 2018
A Bell-led website blocking scheme may open the floodgates to widespread censorship
This proposal from Bell is just one more example of the ways that Canada's vertically integrated telecom companies are trampling on our internet rights in favour of their concentrated media interests.
Feb 22, 2018
Join the Day of Action against a Bell-led censorship initiative
Marie Aspiazu
Mark the date on your calendars, on February 28 Canadians across the country are coming together to protest Bell coalition's website blocking plan. Here's how you can participate.
Feb 15, 2018
Stop unfair competition from foreign digital companies
The federal government is letting large foreign corporations such as Google, Netflix, Amazon, Facebook, Uber and others off the hook on paying taxes on digital products and services in Canada.
Feb 12, 2018
Disruptive innovation could set hearing aid industry on its ear
Hearing aid companies are in a classic disruption space. They are incumbents in an industry that offers a high-cost product and are dependent on that high cost and the business models that support it.
Jan 5, 2018
We can't imagine what real artificial intelligence will be like, and it doesn't care
Grasping the true potential of artificial intelligence is like trying to understand how a mantis shrimp sees the world.
Jan 2, 2018
New Year, New Fight: 2017 in review and the battle ahead for digital rights
2017 was a rollercoaster for internet advocates worldwide, filled with both exciting, hard-won victories and devastating decisions that will have ramifications as we come into the new year.
Dec 22, 2017
This holiday season, border agents have your privacy on their wish list
Victoria Henry
A concerning rise in phone searches this year shows that Canadian and U.S. law see no difference between searching your suitcase and searching your cell phone or laptop.
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